1.
IP Video
Surveillance
While IP multicast
plays a key role in
the transition of
video surveillance
technology from
analog to IP-based,
it can be difficult to
design, deploy,
troubleshoot and
scale. IP multicast
over Avaya Fabric
Connect resolves
these issues by
providing high
scalability, flexibility
and ease of
deployment.
Video Surveillance –
IP Multicast over Avaya
Fabric Connect
A fast growing market
Already a critical component of the
safety and security procedures for many
organizations, video surveillance
deployments are expected to grow at an
IP Video Surveillance
Network Readiness
Checklist
Scalability – How many surveillance
cameras can your network support?
annual rate of 24% through 2016 (IMS
Research). In addition to providing realtime monitoring of personnel, assets
and the physical environment, video
surveillance supports law enforcement
efforts such as those surrounding the
Boston marathon bombings.
Most IP multicast video surveillance
solutions limit scaling to a few thousand
streams which curbs wide deployment
of multicast solutions. Because video
surveillance is relied upon to record
events such as prison breaks and
security breaches, the network on which
Unfortunately, many networks are not
equipped to deal with modern IP video
it runs must be able to scale to meet
changing traffic demands.
surveillance applications. When data
generated by state-of-the-art, highdefinition surveillance cameras runs
over ill-equipped networks that rely on
Availability – How quickly can your
IP video surveillance solution
re-converge?
IP multicast protocols developed 15 or
Any failure in the network can result in
more years ago, the full potential of
sub-optimal recovery times for an IP
surveillance data cannot always be
video surveillance solution. Slow
realized. Resolving this issue, IP
re-convergence can result in minutes or
multicast over Avaya Fabric Connect
hours of lost video, a situation that could
provides the scalability, flexibility and
escalate from inconvenient to
ease of deployment required to
dangerous. Make no video loss your
accommodate today’s high-powered
standard.
video surveillance traffic.
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2.
IP multicast over Avaya
Fabric Connect
10x Scalability
3x Performance
50x Faster re-convergence
Expect Success
Avaya Fabric Connect
offers an IEEE/IETF
standards-based solution.
Simplicity and Predictability– How
quickly can you configure your
solution and predict performance?
infrastructure vulnerable to security
IP multicasting is complex. Relying on
end-to-end traffic separation without
protocol overlays that must remain in
the overlay.
breaches such as VLAN jumping.
Deploy a network that offers secure
synch with underlying network
Avoiding the complexity
topologies, it requires a large
of traditional overlay
operational budget and staff. Choose
multicast routing
a solution that eliminates complexity
protocols, it simplifies
and offers predictable traffic
performance.
all IP video surveillance
deployments from small
to super large.
Security – How can you provide a
secure infrastructure for video
surveillance traffic?
To ensure that surveillance traffic is
isolated from other traffic, many
organizations deploy a dedicated
surveillance infrastructure. Most
traditional LANs, however, do not
deliver true end-to-end separation of
traffic which makes such an
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A new standard in
scalability, simplicity,
availability and
performance
Over the past few months, Pelco, a
pioneer in the video surveillance
marketplace, has been trying to break
the Avaya Fabric Connect solution.
With an extensive global customer
base, hundreds of thousands of
successful installations and over 20
years of experience in video security,
Pelco is one of the most respected
vendors in the industry.

3.
Thoughts from the Experts at Pelco
On Traditional Solutions
Complexity:
“The biggest pain of what I do as a multicast architect is the
complexities of PIM. We have in my opinion a broken model.
We’ve got Spanning Tree then a L3 routing protocol then PIM –
when something breaks you have to wait for all of this to
reconverge.”
Re-Convergence
“I have had 4000 active multicast flows on the network and I had
32 on a monitor wall. I disconnected one of the fibers and asked
my executives then to point out where the video loss was.
Traditionally in this environment that is going to lock our
software up. We are going to a reconnect state and our software
is going to struggle to catch up…..”
Performance
“In the event of a prison breakout, a guard might want to hit a
button and populate a monitor wall with 256 video feeds
simultaneously. .. When you hit 256 simultaneous register
messages going back to the rendezvous point it’s extremely
CPU intensive…
On Avaya FabricConnect
“As I am going through the configuration I must have said at
least 15 times, this can’t be it. This can’t be all that I have to do to
make this work. Once you configure the SPB core, you don’t
have to touch it. It’s a simple 2 or 3 line command to modify this
network. It’s a revolutionary change both in performance and
in simplicity of deployment.”
…what we saw was lightening fast convergence where you
might have a little pixilation but no video frames lost.”
“Multicast services reconverged faster than I could record it.
…the interesting thing with Avaya … I never saw the CPU rise
higher than 6%.”
(Healthy) Skepticism
…then I was shown the technology and I was blown away.
“When I was initially contacted by Avaya my initial response was
no. Then I was sent a whitepaper and it peaked my interest…
It really is phenomenal.”
Traditional IP multicast versus
Avaya Fabric Connect
Complex
Simple
• Multiple protocols (PIM over OSPF)
- In typical multicast networks today, PIM must be enabled
on all routers lobally and on all core interfaces and
g
local edge interfaces where multicast
is required.
• Easy to design
- Single protocol (IS-IS)
• Traffic routed through rendezevous point
• Complex to operate and troubleshoot
- Proprietary tools
• Traffic takes direct route to destination
• Easy to deploy and troubleshoot
- Standards based
• IEEE 802.1 ag extensions
- Edge provisioning only
• Single command configuration
• No need to touch the core
Slow Recovery
Lightning-fast Recovery
• Recovery takes seconds, even minutes
• Sub-second recovery times (<200msec) protects applications
• Key video may be lost and/or gaps in archived materials
created
• Video always available
Limited Scale
Massive Scaling
• 100s of streams
• Tens of thousands of streams supported
• Most systems max out at 1-to-2 thousand
Security Vulnerable
Secure
• Limited solutions offer end-to-end traffic separation
- While MPLS can isolate traffic, its design, deployment, and
trouble shooting is highly complex
• Avaya Fabric Connect provides a totally private, closed network
for multicast traffic (L2 and L3 VSN) that delivers end-to-end
separation
Learn More
To learn more about the Avaya IP Video Surveillance solution, please contact your local Avaya representative.
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